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Guangzhou to Build Third Subway
Guangzhou, China's southern gate to the outside world, has been considering construction of a third subway in the city.
Local sources said Thursday that the city's Party and government authorities have in principle approved the construction.
Guangzhou City Subway Corporation and the city subway designing institute have been busy with compiling a feasibility study report and a report of recommendation, which will be submitted to the central government departments for approval within this year.
The proposed new subway will have a total length of 32 km, and will have 23 stops, as well as a carriage resting section. It will start from Guangzhou's Tianhe Bus Station in the north, extend southward and end at Panyu City Bridge.
If everything goes smoothly, building of the new subway will start later next year, said the local sources.
Workers have now been tensely working on Guangzhou's second subway which is 18.28 km long and is expected to be finished in 2004. Civil engineering construction with the second subway will start in July.
The subways are being built as part of the effort to ease the increasing traffic jams in this economic and political center of south China, with a population of over six million.
There are now only four cities --Beijing, Tianjin, Shanghai and Guangzhou + which have subways, another 10 cities including Shenzhen, Nanjing and Wuhan are planning to build subway systems.
The first section of Guangzhou's first subway which is 18.4 km long and costs 12.7 billion yuan was opened to traffic in June 1997
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